[Photo] Garak Market's 14-Year Tradition of Sharing Love Through Kimchi Making

Seoul Agro-Fisheries & Food Corporation Delivers 10,000 Boxes (100 Tons, Worth 301 Million KRW) of Domestically Sourced Kimchi Made with Garak Market Distributors to Over 560 Welfare Facilities and Organizations

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Seoul Agro-Fisheries & Food Corporation (President Kim Kyung-ho) held the ‘2021 Garak Market Love Kimchi Sharing Ceremony’ on the 6th in collaboration with the Garak Market distribution volunteer organization, Hope Sharing Market.

At the ceremony, fruit and vegetable wholesale market corporations, seafood wholesale market corporations, intermediate wholesalers’ organizations, cargo handling groups, and Garak Mall tenant merchants?all Garak Market distributors who have generously supported and assisted the long-standing kimchi sharing activities?came together to practice neighborly love, making it a meaningful occasion.

Now in its 14th year, the ‘Garak Market Love Kimchi Sharing’ event is a symbolic and prideful social contribution activity representing the entire Garak Market’s volunteer sharing efforts. The corporation and distributors have carried out this event every year with one heart and one mind to coexist with the local community and spread sharing, delivering warmth to the underprivileged and marginalized neighbors.

Especially this year, despite the prolonged difficulties caused by COVID-19, all Garak Market distributors voluntarily participated, delivering 10,000 boxes of kimchi made from domestic ingredients worth 310 million KRW to vulnerable groups, welfare facilities, and organizations (about 560 places) in need.

President Kim Kyung-ho said, “It is fortunate that we can continue warm love during these increasingly difficult times due to COVID-19, and I sincerely thank all the distributors who participated in the kimchi sharing.”

Park Jae-wook, representative of Hope Sharing Market, said, “The kimchi sharing representing Garak Market is a precious tradition that must be preserved, and we will continue to carry on neighborly love every year.”

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